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| AFRICABIZ
VOL 2 - ISSUE: 111
July
15 - October 14, 2008
Previous
Issue
Editor: Dr. Bienvenu-Magloire Quenum
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WORD FROM THE EDITOR
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Dear visitor and international investor,
We
warmly welcome you, if this is
your first visit to Africabiz
Online - The ultimate newsletter
on trading and investing in 49
sub-Saharan African countries.
If you are a regular and faithful
reader, welcome back.
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QUARTERLY DELIVERY OF AFRICABIZ ONLINE CURRENT
Africabiz Online's
editorial team is working on a new brand service - The
VIP-Membership/ VIP- Lounge. A paid service that goes beyond the scope of the free access Africabiz
Online Current deliveries.
VIP-Membership/ VIP Lounge is a paid service, a non-stop publishing
undertaking - as news, events and projects are fed into the VIP-Lounge as soon
as available. This implies a heavy workload. Click
here for more about the new brand VIP-Membership
In order to keep the workload
bearable, the management decides to extend the
periodicity of the
free access website and its flagship
Opportunities Section from monthly delivery - as it had been for 11 years
running, since 1997 - to quarterly.
Next delivery of the Opportunities's Section will then be on October 15, 2008.
Stay tune and visit the huge archive of opportunities
listed in the free access opportunities's section. And also visit Africabiz
Online Global which access remains free to review regularly
updated news, videos, events, reports and strategic studies - about the world
at large and emerging countries in particular.
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MOVING FROM ROUTINE TO INNOVATION TO IMPROVE BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT
The lifting and upgrade of the site that begun few weeks ago (and
announced in last issue) is still underway. All
that started because a news-feed powering engine abruptly stopped delivering,
and force Africabiz editorial team to search for alternative solutions.
Due to the upgrade, Africabiz Online is now fully Web
2.0 pro-active. That is to say coding had been enhanced to permit flawless
input of comprehensive RSS feeds / news and video regularly updated, sometimes
hourly and at least once a week - about several subjects of world concern.
Visit Developing
Matters and Dynamic
News links to see for yourself.
Long hours of research,
feverish installation of scripts and mastering of applications /tools have been source
for brainstorming about the necessity to walk away from routine in
order to improve business efficiency.
Indeed, as far as the unique feed provider was delivering, we keep on doing business
as usual, missing a lot about Web 2.0 and not keeping abreast of innovation in
the field. And now we think it
was a good thing the feed provider let us down - without notice.
This shows that
a business needs to be shook up
from time to time - under pressure from external events/causes or deliberately
shaken up by "provoked" internal
events/ managerial decisions, to force management and staff search for better
ways to improving productivity, business efficiency and keep on with the developing
pace,
to confront the competitors and survive.
Click here
to read about: "Routine Can Be Lethal To Business Development
- VIP MEMBERSHIP
In the near future (hopefully end of September/ beginning of October 2008), Africabiz
Online will move a step further and open a VIP
Members's section inside the current free access electronic magazine.
Indeed,
after 11 years of existence,
it is time for Africabiz Online to use the full potential of Web 2.0 to provide
investors, traders and business people around the world with practical information,
to better assist them in efficiently doing business in and out African countries.
For
an annual fee, investors and decision-makers
worldwide will have access to Africabiz Online's VIP Lounge,
that provides the following (not limited) benefits
- Review tenders from
48 sub-Saharan African
countries. Urgent tenders being notified to VIP-Members
by Alert/Mails posted
on the VIP Member Lounge /and or delivered to mailboxes.
- Listen to, review and download Councils
of Ministers's
statements /audio
and text communiqu�s.
- Take notice of
investment
projects (agribusiness,
infrastructure
and housing schemes. Etc.;) included
in national development schemes/ infrastructure
and privatization.
- Preview
projects promoted
by African national investors in
Agribusiness development,
real estate and other lines of business.
- Download
essential documents such as Investment
Codes, States's Constitutions, Annual
Budget Reports, Global
Stats. Etc. - all
delivered in PDF format.
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Have
access
to
Exclusive
Trading
Studies and
Reports.
- Request Confidential
Support using a Private
Support-Console. (That
is to say a dedicated
support console is attributed
to each VIP Member from which she or he
can request confidential support - about
a detail/ a link to a specific information in
any of the 48 sub-Saharan African country or
ask for a quote for elaborate/
additional paid support )
- Plus a Forum Platform for
exchanges/discussions between VIP Members.
- Automatically have access to a Blog/
Confidential
Newsletter to
be delivered (once or twice per month).
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The Confidential Newsletter will expose inside of and insight
about sub-Saharan
African countries's politics and economy. It
will deliver critical and non-critical information hidden by mainstream
media that could assist investors and decision-makers know what is going on behind
the scene, to forecast future political and economic trends in a specific country.
And therefore making the right investment decisions and planning. Etc.
The Confidential Newsletter will also analyze
the political and economic situation
in sub-Saharan African countries with regards the international situation. Click here to read
more about VIP-Membership.
So, please stay tune to the free
access monthly issue of Africabiz Online to take advantage of Africabiz Online
VIP Members Lounge as soon as available.
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AND PRODUCTS FROM Dr. QUENUM & ASSOCIATES / BUSINESSAFRICA (TM)
List of Products and Solutions to trading and
investing in and out emerging nations - and particularly in sub-Saharan
African nations - is
here to review.
We draw your attention to Jobs & Projects'
platform that assists first, project-owners to tender for
the best experts to carry out projects at very competitive costs,
and, second, job-seekers to publish for free Résumés/CV to attract project-owners attention.
The Free and Pay-Per-Click advertisement
platform is also the cheapest way to advertise for your business
and drive traffic to your website.
 Dr.
Quenum and Associates, IBC / BusinessAfrica (TM) have decided to follow
Yahoo
wise business practice - that is to establish business relationship
only with clients who can produce email address linked
to an ISP domain name or that could be traced back against a database of valid
and legitimate domain names. In other words,
from now on, only ISP-based email messages can expect replies from Dr. Quenum & Associates,
IBC / BusinessAfrica (TM). For
more on the matter, please visit this link.
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Contributor's Guidelines
are here to review. Your
contribution on "How
emerging nations and particularly
African countries / entrepreneurs
could bridge the developing gap" is
welcome.
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feedback / objection / contribution is welcome. Visit WorldWide
BizCenter,
and choose General
Information (as topic) to
create a thread for discussion. On the top of the WorldWide BizCenter page,
there is a HELP link to assist you making an efficient
use of the discussion board. This
link also is useful |
Many
thanks for dropping by and see you here on October 15, 2008
Dr.
B.M. Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
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| BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
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1-SHEA BUTTER (5,
6, 7,
11, 12,
13)
2- BLUE GOLD (14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19)
3- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN (20,
21, 22
and here)
4- KENAF (23,
24)
5- VEGETABLE OIL (25,
26, 27,
28)
6- CEREALS (30,
31, 32,
33)
7- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
8- ESSENTIAL OILS (47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52)
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9- ROOTS & TUBERS (54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
10- FOWL BREEDING (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
11- FISH FARMING (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
12- BIOMASS ENERGY (89, 90, 91, 92)
13- SUGAR
CANE & PRODUCTS (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99/100, 101, 102)
14- LIVESTOCK (103,
104,
105,
106,
107,
108,
109, 110,
111,
112, 113 |
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LIVESTOCK & GAME DEVELOPMENT: PART
VIII - MEAT PRESERVATION IN TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT
 Visiting
African countries "traditional" marketplace, one can see open-air butcher
stalls (as per picture at the left side of the paragraph) swamped by flies.
This enables bacteria to be transmitted that boost micro-organisms proliferation,
degrade meat nutritional quality, which may result in food poisoning when
the meat is eaten.
In reality, the infection starts from the beginning when
the animal is slaughtered as this is done in unhygienic conditions (cutters
and knifes are not sterilized and the animal lies direct on the soil or on
mat laid down direct on bare soil.) And worsen further as sellers keep non-sold
meat in non-refrigerated space/boxes and sell it as long as the decay smell
is not too strong.
This delivery explores solutions to minimizing infection risks.
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SALTED, SMOKED AND SUN-DRIED MEAT
We do not have the
space to fully cover the matter. Making an Internet search with Meat Preservation
as criteria would show the extent of the matter.
Here, only will be
given hints and links to assist entrepreneurs who had interests in setting up
operation as previously described [104, 105,
106, 107,
108, 109]
to process meat for long term preservation using techniques and method other
than energy guzzler refrigeration technology.
Indeed, African individual animal-slaughters and meat-sellers on traditional
marketplace cannot afford having refrigerated boxes to keep the merchandise safe
and free from contamination. And even if they do, energy crisis occurring right
now all over the continent [1, 2, 3, 4]
does not guarantee that the problem would be solved in the near future.
This delivery briefly explores alternatives to preserving meats in tropical environment.
- Smoked Meat
In a previous delivery titled "Economics Briefs About a Small Scale Operation to Smoking Tilapia and Catfish" a versatile equipment had been introduced, that used several kinds of energy sources from wood to electricity. This equipment can also be used to smoke meat. Click
here to review said delivery.
In South Africa, they produce a delicacy called biltong,
described in a veterinary dictionary as "Strips of beef, or other meat, which
are cured briefly in salt, marinated in vinegar and then air-dried. The resulting
dried meat is used as a snack or as a subsistence ration. Called also jerked
beef."
Practicalanswers.com's has an excellent article on biltong that can
be download here in PDF format. The recipe given in that article is not pure South African one and one can visit
this link to get more on South African biltong.
- Salted and Sun-Dried Meat
Since ages, coastal world population used to salt fish meat and dry it under
the sun for preservation. Shark meat was and is still one of the most
common fish salted and sun-dried worldwide
Food and Agriculture Development Organization (FAO) drafted a manual about
"Simple techniques for production of dried meat", which provides wealth of
information about how to proceed prior to the drying process to the composition
of the saline solution. There are also a lot of illustration about the techniques.
Click
here to read more about the matter
Next delivery (online
on October 15, 2008) will explore the economics of a
medium scale operation to processing fresh cattle meat into smoked finished product.
| MORE
ON MEAT PROCESSING |
1- The World Market for Salted, Brined, Dried, or Smoked Meat
And Edible Offal Excluding Flours and Meals Thereof:
A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (Digital - Nov 21, 2003) - Download: PDF
2- The 2003 World Forecasts of Salted, Preserved, Dried and Smoked Meat
And Edible Offals Export Supplies (Digital - Oct 22, 2003) - Download: PDF
3- Dried Salted Meats
(FAO Animal Production & Health Paper)
by Food and Agriculture Organization (Paperback - Jul 1986)
4-
The Canning, Freezing, Curing and Smoking of Meat, Fish and Game
(Paperback - Dec 1975)
5- The
River Cottage Meat Book
by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hardcover - May 2007)
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6 - Manual
on Simple Methods of Meat Preservation
FAO Animal Production and Health Paper
by Food and Agriculture Org. (Paperback - Sep 1990)
7- Handbook
of Fermented Meat and Poultry
by Fidel Toldr� (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2007)
8-
Fresh meat processing
(Food processing review)
by Endel Karmas (Unknown Binding - 1970)
9- Physical
Principles of Food Preservation
Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (Food Science and Technology)
by Marcus Karel and Daryl B. Lund (Hardcover - Jun 20, 2003)
10- Meat
Refrigeration
by S.J. James and C. James (Hardcover - May 6, 2002)
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